While Hominid Males Stayed Home, Females Roamed

While Hominid Males Stayed Home, Females Roamed
Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:23:00 -0500

The males of two bipedal hominid species that roamed the South African savannah more than a million years ago preferred to stay at home, but their female counterparts wandered the landscape, says a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

Researchers studied teeth from two adjacent cave systems in South Africa that were home to two groups of extinct hominids, Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus. They found more than half of the female ...

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